Peak InfoSystems Filezap

Current Version: 1.3.4   License $20.00 USD
If you're a licensee for an earlier version check Upgrades and Bug Fixes for upgrade information.

Filezap for Windows95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP is a file-oriented disk examination and modification program that allows you to display the internals of any file in both hexadecimal and ASCII form and allows you to:

  • Examine files in record-sized segments of arbitrary length.
  • Search for hexadecimal,  ASCII, and unicode patterns.
  • Decode byte patterns as bytes, short integers, integers, long integers, single-precision floating point, double-precision floating point, binary data types, and Microsoft Visual Basic's currency, date/time, and Boolean data types.
  • Make direct changes in the file you're examining and write the changes back to the disk copy of the file.
  • Execute global cut, copy, paste, fill and search-and-replace operations on a text or binary file.
  • Execute chop, paste, and fill operations on a range of records in a text or binary file.
  • Print records from a file in both hexadecimal and ASCII format.

To install Filezap

1. the 2078K filezap.zip file.
2. Move filezap.zip to an empty sub-directory.
3. Use pkunzip or winzip to un-zip it
4. Run the setup file.
5. Once the installation is complete, you can delete the contents of the directory where you unzipped filezap.zip.

Registration

After a 30 day trial period, Filezap will cease functioning unless you've registered it through Softwrap. The package comes with an internal registration capability. You don't need to return to our web site for registration. Just click the "Buy Full Version" button on the nag screen.
 

A complete  manual is available for Filezap in Acrobat Reader format.

it here. If you don't have a copy of Acrobat Reader, click HERE. Adobe®Acrobat®Reader is free, and freely distributable, software that lets you view and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Some FileZap History

FileZap has been available as shareware since TRS-80 Model I days -- the late seventies. The first versions were built in FORTRAN for the TRS-80 Models 1, 2, and 3, and, a little later in C for the TRS-80 Model 16 running Xenix. Later on the C version was converted for use with  SCO Unix and DOS. Ever since Visual Basic 4.0 came out there's been a 32 bit shareware version of FileZap written in Visual Basic for Windows. The current version has been written in Visual Basic 6 and compiled to native code.

Several years ago someone built a knock-off of FileZap for the Amiga. For a long time, references to the knock-off dominated the search engines. Even now you can find search engine references to the Amiga FileZap.